Tenant Farm (WPA)

 

Anne Michalov

  1904 - 2001 (biography)

c. 1935  

lithograph 

9 5/16 x 12 15/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

13 - 25 

pencil titled and editioned; stamped on verso in black ink: "Federal Arts Project Studios / Works Progress Administration / 433 E. Erie Chicago, Illinois" 

Art Institute of Chicago allocation FA10168 

antique-white wove Navarre 

published 

"Federal Arts Project Studios / Works Progress Administration / 433 E. Erie Chicago, Illinois" 

20652 

SOLD

One of 11 lithographs Anne Michalov did for the Chicago WPA, this impression of "Tenant Farm" has stamped on the verso in black ink: "Federal Arts Project Studios / Works Progress Administration / 433 E. Erie Chicago, Illinois." "Tenant Farm" depicts a small rural farm in the midst of the Great Depression, the farmers allowed to live in the house and work a small garden for their own use, the profits from the crops all went to the owner of the farm. Tenant farming could be as partnerships with contracts or indenture where the farmer works for a specific time, others were by whim and the tenant could be evicted for any reason. Tenant farming was especially prevalent in the south.